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Avaya Responds to Motion Filed by Verizon Communications Inc.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(Marketwire - September 10, 2009) - Avaya Inc. issued the following statement
in response to a motion filed by Verizon Communications Inc. on Sept. 9,
2009, in the U.S. Bankruptcy court for the District of Delaware related to
Avaya's bid for Nortel Enterprise Solutions:

"Avaya is committed to providing current and future customers of Avaya with
the highest levels of service and support as we pursue the acquisition of
Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Avaya is engaged in discussions with Verizon
to attempt to negotiate suitable arrangements for the assumption of the
contracts referenced in Verizon's motion filed September 9, 2009. Avaya
continues to believe that the acquisition of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions
unit by Avaya will deliver significant value for customers and other
stakeholders of both companies."

About Avaya

Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company
provides unified communications, contact centers, and related
services directly and through its channel
partners to leading businesses and organizations around the
world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art
communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and
competitiveness. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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"predict," "should" or "will" or other similar terminology. We have based
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estimates and projections. While we believe these expectations,
assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward looking
statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. These and other
important factors may cause our actual results, performance or achievements
to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some of the key
factors that could cause actual results to differ from our expectations
include: our ability to develop and sell advanced communications products
and services, including unified communications and contact center
solutions; our ability to develop our indirect sales channel; economic
conditions and the willingness of enterprises to make capital
investments; the market for advanced communications products and services,
including unified communications solutions; our ability to remain
competitive in the markets we serve; our ability to manage our supply chain
and logistics functions; the complexity of our IT infrastructure; the
ability to protect our intellectual property and avoid claims of
infringement; our ability to effectively integrate acquired businesses into
ours; our ability to maintain adequate security over our information
systems; environmental, health and safety laws, regulations, costs and
other liabilities; the ability to retain and attract key employees; risks
relating to the transaction of business internationally; pension and
post-retirement healthcare and life insurance liabilities; and liquidity
and our access to capital markets. We caution you that the foregoing list
of important factors may not contain all of the material factors that are
important to you. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.